PSYC 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Sigmund Freud, Nomothetic, Observational Learning
Chapter 13 social psychology day 3
● Roots of prejudice
○ Scapegoat hypothesis
■ Prejudice arises from the need to blame other groups for our misfortune
○ Just-world hypothesis
■ Deep-seated need to perceive the world as fair
○ Conformity
● Types of prejudice
○ Implicit
■ Prejudice feelings we are unaware of
○ Explicit
■ Prejudice feelings we are aware of
○ Microaggressions
■ Unintended discrimination
■ A subtle by offensive comment/action directed toward a minority that is
unintentional
● Combating prejudice
○ Takes more than an increased contact between groups to reduce prejudice
Chapter 4 personality
● Personality
○ People’s typical ways of thinking feeling and behavior
○ Traits
■ Relatively enduring predispositions that influence our behavior across
many situations
● How we study personality
○ Nomothetic
■ General laws that govern the behavior of all individuals
○ Idiographic
■ Similar to case studies
■ Unique characteristics and life history experiences within a person
● Origin
○ Behavioral-genetic method
○ Genetic factors
○ Shared environmental
■ What makes family members similar
○ Nonshared environmental
■ Experiences that make same family different from each other
● Sigmund freud
○ Neurologist
○ Observed symptoms that made little of no physiological sense, concluded that
mental illnesses were due to psychological issues
○ Developed theoretical model to treat issues
■ Assumptions
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Document Summary
A subtle by offensive comment/action directed toward a minority that is unintentional. Takes more than an increased contact between groups to reduce prejudice. People"s typical ways of thinking feeling and behavior. Relatively enduring predispositions that influence our behavior across many situations. General laws that govern the behavior of all individuals. Unique characteristics and life history experiences within a person. Prejudice arises from the need to blame other groups for our misfortune. Deep-seated need to perceive the world as fair. Experiences that make same family different from each other. Observed symptoms that made little of no physiological sense, concluded that mental illnesses were due to psychological issues. Tendency of ego to delay immediate gratification until appropriate outlet is found. Egos job is to deal with threats from outside world. When danger is present ego experiences anxiety. Transforming a socially unacceptable impulse into a more acceptable on. Motivated forgetting of emotionally threatening memories of impulses.
